tushonka

Mosliak mushroom appetizer, beef tushonka and red caviar on rye bread for dessert.

Tushonka can be used and preserved in extreme situations, and therefore is a part of military food supplies in the CIS.

For the people of Soviet Union tushonka was a part of military and tourist food supplies, at some extreme periods of time it could have only been bought with special tickets.

In Vasily Aksyonov's novel Ozhog ('The Burn'), the convict Shilo make chifir' in a tushonka tin and gives it to Tolya von Steinbock.